"The city of Al Quds has an Islamic character and the
occupation will not be able to take away its character and identity,
even if it continues committing crimes and forging the facts.” This is
total projection: the ones trying to create a false alternative history
are the "Palestinians," not the Israelis, whose historical claim to that
area is abundantly established by archaeology.

"Mufti: Jerusalem is 'Islamic,'" by Dalit Halevy for Israel National News, November 12 (thanks to Twostellas):

The Supreme Palestinian Mufti, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, has
issued a warning against what he says are the dangerous repercussions of
excavation work Israel is allegedly carrying out next to the Al Aqsa
Mosque, in territory he says is under the control of the Muslim Waqf
trust, which administers the Islamic Al Aqsa complex.
He accuses Israel of trying to take over the mosque.

"The radical settlers continue the daily damage to the blessed
Al-Aqsa Mosque,” Hussein wrote in a statement. “They burst into the
territory of the Al Aqsa Mosque and pray in it.

"The city of Al Quds [Jerusalem – DH] has an Islamic character and
the occupation will not be able to take away its character and identity,
even if it continues commiting [sic] crimes and forging the facts.”

The World Union of Muslim Sages declared Friday, November 22, a
special day of support for the Al Aqsa Mosque and for Al Quds /
Jerusalem.

They called upon Muslim residents of Jerusalem to gather at
the mosque in order to “protect it from the plots of the occupation
authorities and the extremist Jewish groups.”

These Jewish groups, the Union of Muslim Sages said, seek to enable
Jewish prayer at the site or demolish it and build the “false” Jewish
Temple upon its ruins.

The Temple Mount is Judaism's holiest site, where the two holy
Temples of Israel stood prior to their destruction, and where some
Jewish traditions teach that the creation of the world began.

But despite that fact, Jewish visitors to the Mount are subject to
severe restrictions, including a complete ban on prayers or the
performance of any other religious rituals, due to the presence of an
Islamic complex there that is built on the ruins of the two Jewish
Temples. This despite court orders rejecting such bans as illegally
infringing on the right to freedom of religion.

Temple Mount activists have often cited such restrictions as an added
imperative for Jews to frequent the Temple Mount, as a way of asserting
Jewish rights at the holiest site in Israel.